Talk:George Kay (footballer)

Distillery F.C.

My books show that George Kay joined West Ham from Distillery F.C. and not from Belfast Celtic F.C.. Both clubs were located in west Belfast at the time just before World War I and according to Google Maps,[1] they were about a mile apart so I guess the two clubs could easily be confused. The offical Lisburn Distillery F.C. website (Distillery changed their name some years after the club moved to Lisburn at the beginning of the 1980s) show in some detail including appearances, that George Kay played for them[2], and I propose to change have changed West Belfast F.C. to Distillery F.C. in the text.

5 GEORGE KAY joined Distillery from Bolton Wanderers at the start of 1911-12 and played regularly that season until injury put him out of action for quite a while. He returned to the team at the start of 1913-14, helping to win the Gold Cup and also the CAS the following season. He joined the army and was shell-shocked during World War One. On recovery he joined West Ham in July 1919 and later became manager of Liverpool. He made 91 appearances for Distillery scoring 14 goals and played twice for the Irish League.

--Malcolmxl5 00:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Year of Birth

I've been doing some work on George's profile over on WikiTree here. You will see that the date of birth varies tremendously between the records after his marriage in Oldham compared to those before. However, they are definitely for the same person as there is only one George Kay born at the time in Manchester who appears as a professional footballer in both the 1911 and 1921 censuses. Consequently, all we know for sure about his date of birth is that it was before his baptism on 28 March 1888. As such, I would propose we change his birth year to just 1888 and include the following citation to the General Records Office Birth Index with it: I'll give it a few days for people to reply and if there are no objections will go ahead and make the change. GenSusie (talk) 15:58, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

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